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Vern DeLaronde, the founder of the First Nations Indigenous Warriors walk on the main road into the Brady Road landfill, just outside of Winnipeg, Monday, July 10, 2023. A court hearing on an injunction to end a seven-day blockade at a Winnipeg landfill has been adjourned until Thursday.
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Somali refugee children play outside in an open field at Dadaab refugee camp in northern Kenya Thursday, July 13, 2023. One of the world’s largest refugee camps offers a stark example of the global food security crisis with thousands of people fleeing Somalia in recent months to escape drought and extremism but finding little to eat when they arrive at the Dadaab camp in neighboring Kenya.
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